I were using a bottle of a supermarket's own brand shampoo and...?

...I read on the bottle it said they were against animal testing and actively research alternatives. My question is, what alternatives are there to researching medicine and how do you know that is a safe way of doing things. Don't get me wrong, I'm for animal free products, just wondered what the 'alternatives' are.I were using a bottle of a supermarket's own brand shampoo and...?
Allergy tests (skin patch) on human volunteers.


Laboratory cultures


Experiments on deceased humans who donated their bodies


Computer simulation





These are a few alternatives to animal testing. As for cosmetics I don't know which of the above would be used probably the first one.I were using a bottle of a supermarket's own brand shampoo and...?
As for drug testing, the failure to test on animals with a claim there are viable alternatives fails because the drug must be tested on a complex system. The prcess by which drugs are tested involves tests on cell cultures to determine if the drug has any potency and cytotoxicity. Progressing on to human cell lines. If the drug kills the cells there is no point in further development. Then onto animal testing (hopefully on an animal whose physiology and biochemistry is a good match to humans for the target organs of the drug). Failure at this point would precluse human testing. Then onto small scale human trials and if successful large scale human trials. Imagine the scenario where animal testing was not permitted and a cosmetic was tested on the skin of a volunteer, the compound passed through the skin leading to multiple organ failure and death. I' rather that was a rat, say. Also it would be unethical to ask someone to allow you to induce cancer to see if your drug could cure them.
Often the testing has already been done on all the ingredients in the store-brand product, for this reason they simply say that no animal testing was done in the manufacture of their product, and although it's technically true, it's only because it's a ';generic'; version of a product for which animal testing has already been done.
there are alternatives


but some are no good


tissue culture wont work for shampoo


dead bodies will sort of


animals are good


and well we could always test on people (elephent men case)


why not test on animal rights protesters instead of the aminals


\^^better results
just send the results of the test on you to the company however if your hair falls out they probably won't want to know about it
They should test it on people who are against animal testing.
They test it on prisoners instead.
test it on condemned for life peeps